The Editor

My name is Jarod Bona and I have a law firm called Bona Law PC, which has offices in La Jolla, California and New York City. Before I started Bona Law in March of 2014, I was an attorney for a dozen years at the giant international law firms DLA Piper and Gibson Dunn, in offices all over the country: Washington, DC; Minneapolis, MN; Irvine, CA; and San Diego, California.

I graduated from Harvard Law in 2001 and followed that up with a clerkship in Minneapolis, MN for Judge James B. Loken of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. I grew up in Minnesota, so I knew I could handle the weather.

I enjoyed the clerkship and still apply what I learned from Judge Loken, but the best part of that year back in the Midwest was that I met my wonderful wife. And where she led me is the reason for this website for real-estate investors.

Sure, I’ve done some real-estate litigation, but why am I starting a blog for real-estate investors when my professional focus has been antitrust and complex litigation?

Over the years, while I was practicing law, my wife introduced me to real-estate investing and that set us on a course of investing over the last decade. So my knowledge of real-estate investing is largely from, well, being an investor myself.

I anticipate that real-estate services, along with many other industries, will change significantly over the next 5 to 10 years and Beal Real Estate will be on the leading edge. We have similar views on innovation and client service and I am proud to work with them. As a bonus, the founder of Beal Real Estate, Jordan Beal, is also an attorney, which creates a comfort level for complicated transactions.

My hope and intention with this blog is to meld my real-estate and legal experience to create exceptional value for real-estate investors and others with interest in real-estate.

My role with my antitrust blog is to handle all or most of the writing myself. But here, at Titles and Deeds, I am going to serve as the editor. I will write some articles myself, but my role is to bring many voices and perspectives to the website, each offering their unique perspective to real-estate investing.

We will have many legal articles, but that will be a part rather than the whole of the story we tell.